Serious Quotes - Page 29

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.

Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings."

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals